sophistication

NOUN /sə,fɪstə'keɪʃən/
14 LETTERS · 5 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH S

sophistication is a valid 14-letter word worth 21 points in Scrabble and 23 points in Words with Friends.

SCRABBLE WORDS WITH FRIENDS
S1O1P3H4I1S1T1I1C3A1T1I1O1N1
1 + 1 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =21 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 42TRIPLE WORD → 63
MEANING

What does sophistication mean?

NOUN · 5 SENSES
1

A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone.

2

The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment.

ANTONYMS
BROADER
3

Uplifting enlightenment.

SYNONYMS
4

Being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject.

“understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication”

5

Falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies.

“he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason”